Artwork of what happens when the guardian perishes, and isn't even half of them all.
As Badass Adorable as Margaret is, she tends to be offed in some rather disturbing or frightening ways. While this Fox Eye game as a whole is not as dark as the likes of Holdover or especially Sacrifice Girl, this page will cover just how much failure can be a cruel mistress to BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret.
- One of the Game Over images has Margaret beaten to death (see top-left of the page image), with her lying on the ground with cuts, bruises, bloodstains, and even a black eye. It can be pretty unsettling to see for the first time since Margaret never looks this hurt during the gameplay, itself. It feels even worse if you or someone you know has been on the receiving end of a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in Real Life, let alone if you or that someone is a girl.
- With this game being known as a borderline H-Game, there are quite a few other creepy deaths Margaret can suffer from, here. She can be raped to death by creatures such as giant rats, or eaten alive by bosses such as giant plant monsters and centipedes, with her drowning from her head being submerged in the monsters' internal fluids; likely their stomach acids that's trying to digest her whole body. Certain snakes can turn her into stone, leaving her with a terrified expression from it (see top-right of the page image). She can also be forced to drown underwater by either getting the air sucked out of her by a Gorgeous Gorgon, getting strangled by Lizard Folk, or held under by Combat Tentacles. In short, everything she encounters wants to ruthlessly kill her.
- There's also an underwater version of the above No-Holds-Barred Beatdown death where Margaret's beaten corpse slowly drifts deeper in the water she was killed in. Her ordinary drowning image seems tame in comparison, and this is considering the nearly-blank-eyed, Dies Wide Open expression she has in that image (see bottom-left of the page image).
- Speaking of drowning, much like Miyo in her own game, Margaret's drowning is pretty realistic as well, as she both verbally and vocally strains her lungs to hold her breath, and she sounds more and more dire the closer she is to drowning, with her even frantically kicking her legs in a panic when she's almost out of air. The Game Over image for drowning is merely just the end result, and as stated above, several enemies have attacks that are specifically used to drown her faster instead of killing her brutally such as the aforementioned No-Holds-Barred Beatdown death. When this happens, it's usually by strangling the air out of her until she stops moving.
- Margaret actually manages to upstage Miyo in one aspect of realism: when Miyo drowns, her body just casually floats to the bottom, and the screen fades to black. If one watches closely when Margaret runs out of air and drowns (without it being choked out of her) you can see Margaret's body twitch post-mortem as the screen fades to black, making for quite an effective jumpscare. Then there's the lovely aforementioned Game Over screen.
- For added Fridge Horror, Margaret dies with an ahegao expression when she drowns, strongly implying she's got a fetish for it (or oxygen deprivation in general). It's to be expected, given it's a Fox Eye game, but damn. There's yet another underwater-related death where Margaret dies from the red Grimy Water. What makes this different from an ordinary drowning is that the red water hurts Margaret if it so much as touches her feet, and it's impossible in higher Difficulty Levels for her to actually drown in it via an empty Oxygen Meter before the red water drains all of her Life Meter away, first. The implication is that the blood-red water is so disgustingly-polluted and foul that it violently stings any ordinary person that comes in contact with it to death. Dying from it has the following Game Over image show Margaret floating motionlessly in the red water with a horrified Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises look on her face.
- Although it's a part of Fox Eye's Signature Style and Author Appeal to set its protagonists up for drowning perils as a common-but-avoidable danger, and in this specific case it can be entirely skipped by the player, the Have a Nice Death sequence of Margaret being drowned in a water torture tank near the end of the game is quite possibly the most brutal instance of a drowning in any Fox Eye game ever made. If the player gets careless and lets Margaret get caught by the wizards in the underground laboratory, the water tank sequence is initiated where Margaret is stripped of all of her clothes and guns, bound upside-down by a rope, and then dumped into the tank. She's then forced to flail around and fight against drowning helplessly while the enemy, including the Big Bad, General Blaine, gloat and watch her fruitless efforts up to her inevitable death. The only control the player has with Margaret at this point is to make her struggle free, but her efforts remain in vain, as all this does is deplete her Oxygen Meter faster. This can happen to her twice as she survives the first ordeal, but triggering this sequence a second time drowns and kills her for real, greeting the player with a detailed Game Over image of Margaret's suspended, now-lifeless body hanging in the water tank with the cloaked wizards looming on at her, preparing to throw her corpse away like trash per Blaine's orders. The fact that this whole sequence plays out like a special cutscene to the "dark area" music gives it the feeling that it's meant to represent a Bad Ending for the game where The Bad Guy Wins by drowning the heroine, herself. Not even Margaret's In the Name of the Moon boast was enough to soften the blow of her fate. Once again, the player can skip this whole sequence by never getting caught in the laboratory, but still...
- As shown in the bottom-right of the page image, not escaping the collapsing tower in time after beating the True Final Boss causes Margaret to perish under the tower's rubble. If you look closely at the Game Over image for this, you can see that she's still barely moving, and likely trapped where she is.
